Far from the Madding Crowd, which depicts the brutal reality of Victorian rural life, has been slapped with a content warning by the University of Warwick.
The sculpture, a six-metre-high stack of cantilevered steel blocks, is called Alert and is is meant to resemble a person squatting down not a man exposing himself.
History students at Manchester Metropolitan University will now be alerted to the potentially graphic content in a translation of the Miracles of the Hand of St James.
A woke university faces ridicule after slapping a trigger warning on one of its archaeology courses - alerting students they may see images of human remains.